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udel Has Visitor
Jane Fonda At Russian's Birthday
By YITZHAK RABI
JEW YORK JTA) -
Nudel, the Jewish re-
lenik who has been
lied an exit visa to emi-
tte to Israel since 1972,
(ebrated her 53rd birth-
last Friday in her exile
iy of Bendery. But unlike
^ent previous years, when
marked her birthdays
[solitude, she had a guest
is time: actress Jane
mda.
|we were the first Westerners
have visited her in six years,"
lid in a press conference
Rhi Hilton Hotel, two hours
V she returned from a five-day
i tn the Soviet Union. She was
wnpanied to the USSR by her
retary, Stephen Rivers,
a Los Angeles attorney,
rshall Grossman, who is
oiliar with Soviet law.
*0NDA SAID she went to the
Kiel Union to meet with Nudel
to try to discuss her case
Ih Soviet officials. She said
It while she was in Moscow,
met with V.V. Kuznetsov,
of Ovir, the Soviet
Migration agency, and asked for
del to be allowed to emigrate
J Israel to be reunited with her
Iter, Elena Fridman, who lives
Uerusalem.
VISITOR JANE FONDA
The Soviet official said that
Nudel's case is an "internal
affair" and that it is not different
than many other cases, Fonda
said.
The world famous actress, who
has been taking a personal
interest in Nudel's case since
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r.S. Arabs Pushing
California's Prop E Stirs Passions
JEW YORK (JTA) -
spokesperson for a
[rkeley, Calif., volunteer
.Edition organized to
(feat an initiative for the
Ine 5 Presidential
Smary, which calls for
|ts in the United States
to Israel, equal to
raeli expenditures for
Test Bank settlements,
\\d that the initiative had
en organized by a local
Imerican Arab group.
lErika Boyd, the volunteer
okesman, told the Jewish Tele-
>Phic Agency that the sijrna-
res necessary to put Proposi-
pn E on the ballot to be voted
during the Presidential
pmary were gathered by "Tax-
lyers For Peace in the Middle
Jst.
[SHE SAID she understood
the taxpayers group waa
ganized for the purpose of
tt'ng Proposition E on the
Ck 5a ba.Uot b* the American
po Anti-Discrimination Com-
pee. She added that a similar
pmpt had been made in Ann
p*. Michigan, which has a
jostantial American-Arab
platan but that she did not
low what had happened to that
prt in Ann Arbor.
IT. Mehdi, president of the
nencan-Arab Relations
mmittee in New York City,
^firmed to the JTA that the
"Payers group which sponsored
oposition E in in Berkeley was
Jated by the American Arab
^'Discrimination Committee.
"aid he knew there was a
similar effort in Ann Arbor but
he did not know what had
happened, nor the name of the
third city in which a similar effort
was made. A call to American
Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee in Washington by the
JTA brought similar
information.
Boyd also told the JTA that
the purpored tax-payers group
had collected 7,000 signatures to
put Proposition E on the June
ballot, adding that only 5,000
signatures were required. She
said there is another initiative on
the ballot calling for a nuclear
freeze.
PROPOSITION E declares
that "the people of the City of
Berkeley call on the United
States government to reduce its
yearly aid to Israel by an amount
equal to what it determines to be
the most accurate approximation
of what Israel spends annually on
its settlements in the occupied
territories of the West Bank,
Gaza Strip and Golan Heights."
In response to the placement of
the initiative on the June ballot, a
group of Berkeley residents
organized "The Coalition for
Middle East Peace and Justice,"
with headquarters across from
City Hall. Among leaders of the
coalition are two Berkeley City
Councilmen, James Sweeney and
John Denton. Boyd stressed to
the JTA that the coalition,
though it has three rabbis among
its members, is not a Jewish-
sponsored organization.
She said seven of the nine
Council members have an-
nounced their opposition to
Proposition E. Mayor Eugene
Newport and Councilwoman
Your Community Capital
Gift $'s At Work
Wednesday, May 9, was a very
exciting day in the history of the
Tampa Jewish community. It
probably went unnoticed by the
majority of the population but it
is certainly noteworthy. The first
section (pictured above) of the
soon to be Hillel School Building
was delivered by truck to the site
of the Jewish Community Center.
Other pre-fabricated units are
soon to follow and the Hillel
School of Tampa will be occupy-
ing their new facility in time for
the 1984-85 school year.
The Jewish Community Center
has also made excellent use of the
Capital Campaign dollars. A new
roof (an absolute necessity) has
been installed. Other improve-
ments include refinished bath-
rooms and locker rooms, painting
of hallways, classrooms and the
gymnasium, landscaping, new
cool deck around the swimming
pool, additional chaise lounges,
and a modern, up-to-date tele-
phone system. Other renovations
are in the planning stages as
more dollars become available.
Both the Jewish Community
Center and the Hillel School of
Tampa will need additional
dollars to complete the work that
has been started. There are still
many individuals in the commu-
nity who have not participated in
the Capital Gifts Campaign.
Your help is needed now to
complete the effort to raise
$400,000. Contact the Tampa
Jewish Federation. 875-1618, to
offer your help and make your
contribution.
Veronica Fucson have remained
silent on the issue. Prof. Edward
Epstein, chairman of "No on E,"
is Jewish. Also opposing the ini-
tiative are members of the All
Berkeley Coalition, Berkeley's
Citizen Action and Berkeley
Democratic Club.
ALSO ON RECORD as
opposing the measure, Boyd said,
are John George, chairman of the
Alameda County Board of Super-
visors; Ira Heyman, University
of California Chancellor; the Rev.
Michael Blecker, president of the
Graduate Theological Union in
Berkeley; and the three rabbis 
Martin Ballanoff of the Univer-
sity of California Berkeley Hillel
Foundation; Avi Levine and
Joseph Leibowitz.
Sweeney said he "questions
the motives" of the initiative
sponsors because it "does not
once mention face-to-face nego-
tiations, does not mention the
notion of justice."
Denton, posing the question of
the purpose of the initiative, said
it was "a contrived measure" to
"stigmatize Israel and embarrass
American Jews."
Boyd, asked just what action
the initiative required, if
approved by the voters, said it
mandates Mayor Newport to
send a letter to President Reagan
informing him of the action.
She also was asked whether
there was any view among coali-
tion backers that approval of the
proposition could not in any way
effect United States policy in the
Middle East. She said there was
substantial opinion to that effect
and that it was generally
regarded as a propaganda device,
as Denton had labeled it.
Ceausescu Says He'll
Monitor Anti-Semitism
By EDWIN EYTAN
PARIS (JTA) -
President Nicolai
Ceausescu of Rumania has
promised Chief Rabbi
Moses Rosen that he will
personally see to it that
"such things do not happen
again." Ceausescu, who
met with Rosen for nearly
one hour last week, was
referring to the publication
of virulently anti-Semitic
articles in a number of
Communist Party papers
and in a book of poetry.
Rosen, who arrived in Paris on
his way to Casablanca where he
was guest of the Moroccan
Jewish community and part-
icipated in the First National
Conference of Moroccan Jewish
Communities May 13 and 14, told
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that Ceausescu told him that as
soon as he was informed of the
anti-Semitic nature of some of the
works in a book of poetry
published a few months ago, he
personally ordered it seized and
withdrawn from circulation.
ROSEN SAID the President
also told him that the author,
Corneliu Valerian Tudor, was
reprimanded "within the (Com-
munist) Party framework as was
the editor in charge of the book's
publication." The Chief Rabbi
said his meeting with Ceausescu
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Rabbi Roeen
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